The real underlying cause of all this lies with ticket prices. Greedy but intelligent individuals such as PBL are hell bent on selling tickets for an unsustainable price. To sustain such stupidity in the name of increasing profits for the equally greedy shareholders, managers free of any morals or scruples but very well paid, have decided to take on those keeping the whole thing moving. It isn't just flight crews it all departments.
These apparently intelligent but greedy individuals should they succeed will be able to reap the benefits of cheap flights flown on the backs of cheap labour making excessive profits until they die.
The point missed by those same apparently intelligent but greedy individuals is that this safety critical industry can only survive and maintain its attractiveness as long as it remains safe. Poorly paid, poorly motivated individuals are not what one wants on board unless you are accepting a much higher risk of not reaching your destination.
Human made machines are just as frail as humans themselves, add to that human factors and the reality is that 1,000's of things go wrong on a daily basis. 99.9% of the time, a highly motivated professional being paid what he fully deserves deals with the situation so well that must of you SLF weren't even aware of what happened.
To fools such as PBL and willy walsh this is then interpretated as such individuals being paid too much or their working conditions are too good or whatever.
PBL if you are such a strong advocate of BA's attitude and behaviour, go fly exclusively in Nigeria or indonesia. If you should survive the experience come back and then we can talk about your unsocial theories.
Safe flying costs money and I am not just talking about the ticket price.
There is also nothing worse than a pompous idiot.